Recourses

Question 1

What is a recourse?

Answer 1

A stock or supply of something that has a value or purpose

Question 2

What are the three types of recources?

Answer 2

Food, energy, water

Question 3

How many calories do humans need a day

Answer 3

2000-2400 calories

Question 4

How many people in the world are malnourished?

Answer 4

2 billion

Question 5

What are the causes of water defecit?

Answer 5

Lack of rainfall, climate

Question 6

What are the solutions to water defecit?

Answer 6

Resovoirs, transporting water, saving water

Question 7

What is water used for?

Answer 7

Drinking, energy, agriculture

Question 8

How many countries have a water shortage in 2025?

Answer 8

50 countries

Question 9

What increases as development increases?

Answer 9

Energy

Question 10

What is the population expected to rise to in the UK?

Answer 10

73 million

Question 11

Why do we import food in the UK?

Answer 11

We don’t have enough food supplies in this country
- UK food costs could be expensive due to poor harvests
- Businesses compete for cheaper prices
- UK climate only suitable for some foods
- Demand is high

Question 12

What percentage of UK food is imported?

Answer 12

40 percent

Question 13

How many people died in Somalia as a result of the famine?

Answer 13

258000

Question 14

What percentage of the child population died due to the famine in Somalia

Answer 14

18 percent

Question 15

What is an example of farmers that only get a fraction of the selling price?

Answer 15

Kenyan farmers

Question 16

How is the UK responding to food challenges?

Answer 16

Increasing investment in agribusinesses
Producing organically

Question 17

What is an example of an agribusiness?
- What does it farm?
- How does it farm?

Answer 17

Lynford house farm
- Wheat, sugar beet, potatoes
- Flat fertile land is intensively farmed with high machinery costs

Question 18

What percentage of water is used in homes?

Answer 18

50 percent

Question 19

What percentage of water is wasted in the UK?

Answer 19

21 percent

Question 20

Why is the demand for water rising in the UK?

Answer 20

Rising in population and people are wanting more lavish lifestyles

Question 21

Where does the water in the UK come from?

Answer 21

Rivers, Reservoirs, underground supply

Question 22

What is grey water?

Answer 22

Water that is recycled that is used in agriculture

Question 23

What are some ways to save water?

Answer 23

Use domestic water meters
Grey water
More efficient domestic appliances

Question 24

What is the distribution of water like in the UK?

Answer 24

Areas of water surplus in the north, due to low population and high rainfall (Lake district)

Defecit in the south due to high population and higher temps and low rainfall (London)

Question 25

What are examples of rivers that transfer water in the UK?

Answer 25

River tees, river wear

Question 26

Why did the 2006 water grid fail?

Answer 26

Costs were too high

Question 27

Why are some people opposed to water transfer schemes?

Answer 27

High costs Effect on the environment Greenhouse gases released in the meantime

Question 28

What are the positives of water transfer schemes?

Answer 28

Reliable source Creates incomes from jobs Many dams provide hydro-electric power

Question 29

How do people manage the quality of the water?

Answer 29

Filtering water Purifying by adding chlorine Strict rules on usages of water

Question 30

Why have groundwater sources decreased?

Answer 30

Discharge from industrial sites Runoff from chemical fertilisers on farmland

Question 31

How is energy demand changing in the UK?

Answer 31

Demand for renewables is increasing Oil is decreasing but we still use lots of non renewables 75 percent oil and gas reserves being used

Question 32

Pros and cons of fracking